When you compare Trump's cons with the $50 trillion that the GOP has swindled out of the American working class and given to the top 1 percent since 1980, Trump looks like a piker.
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The suit charges that oil companies including ExxonMobil, Shell, and Total have known since as far back as the early 1970s that burning fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases that cause global heating.
Trump's response to the Jan.6 Committee subpoena, "...is powerfully incriminating evidence that will be introduced against him when he's prosecuted. And those who helped him draft it are co-conspirators."
Spurred by Alex Jones' lies, his supporters subjected the parents of murdered children to menacing threats and merciless harassment, including accusing parents of faking their own children's deaths.
The GOP has no unifying philosophy other than hate, fear, and kowtowing to billionaires and their giant corporations.
Almost every private medicare insurance player has been accused of fraud by a whistleblower or the U.S. government. In addition, the vast majority are engaged in exaggerating patients' illnesses in order to reap more money from taxpayers.
Just when you thought you'd put a stake through its heart, fascism climbs out of its grave once more to suck the blood out of the body politic.
The Onion's amicus brief to the Supreme Court is a triple threat: masterfully written, draws attention to an important case that could easily skate by unnoticed, and nails the argument.
A new study shows there is a lot more methane being added to the atmosphere than currently accounted for in any inventories or estimates. And the source is obvious and addressable.
Charles Koch and his billionaire buddies in the Koch Network continue their pattern of trying to tear down our government by funding candidates who tried to turn our country into a dictatorship.
Because of key decisions by the Supreme Court equating money with free speech, our political system is now overrun with grifters, con artists and career criminals.
It is time to rein in the big corporations that are getting away with pushing up prices to fatten their profit margins while families are quite literally paying the price of their profiteering.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington argues there some current and future members of Congress should be disqualified from holding office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
The migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard by DeSantis had actually been pursuing legal immigration channels when they were conned into leaving their shelter. They experienced cruelty here akin to what they fled in their home country.
Racist governors Abbott and DeSantis are not even original in their mistreatment of immigrants. The same cruel scam was perpetrated on black families in the 1960s by the KKK and other racist factions.
As Yvon Chouinard put it in his letter: "Instead of 'going public,' you could say we're 'going purpose.' ...we'll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth.